Category: Lectures / Readings

Arnd Bauerkämper: National Security and Humanity. The Internment of Civilian “Enemy Aliens” During the First World War The Visiting Professorship is a joint project of the German Historical Institute London and the International History Department of the LSE and is...

Daqing Yang – Regional Orders in East Asia: From the Washington System to the East Asian Community 2014 witnesses the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War. The war is regarded as a major historical turning-point....

On 18th of June a roundtable discussion took place at the DHI London. Margaret MacMillan, Annika Mombauer, Sönke Neitzel and John Röhl discussed with Mark Hewitson what historians don’t know about the causes of World War I. Andreas Gestrich, director...

Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton and holds a joint appointment as Professor of International Affairs in the Woodrow Wilson School. Das 20. Jahrhundert & der Erste Weltkrieg: Harold James – Cosmos and Chaos from maxweberstiftung...

Marc Lazar is professor of history and political sociology at Sciences Po. In Sciences Po he is Head of the graduate program in the History department since 2007, Dean of the History department and President of scientific Council since...

The historiography of the First World War has over the last few years quickly shifted beyond the confines of the fields of Flanders and the Somme. The ripples from the seismic change that the First World War enacted were...

Valeska Huber talks about a region that was heavily affected by the Great War and was re-ordered in the aftermath. During her talk she explores distinct meaning of ordering the minds, namely: 1. Education and formation of elites in...

In Monty Python’s famous record shop, First World War Noises was not among the “terrifically popular” items. While other records were selling fast, the soundtrack of the Great War got stuck. In modern historiography, too, the acoustics of history were left on the shelf for a long...

A lecture series organised by the Leo Baeck Institute London, the Jewish Museum and the Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt/Main, in cooperation with the German Historical Institute London examines the topic The Jews and the Great War and how the experience of World...

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La Grande Guerre

Initialized by the German Historical Institute Paris this blog presents the activities of the Max Weber Foundation’s Institutes around the First World War. On the occasion of the Centenary and with a wide range of events, projects and publications they provide a transnational perspective on the subject.